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Fiction§ The minds · fictional · Tomainia · Dictator (satire)
Adenoid Hynkel
The dictator, lampooned
Chaplin's mirror held up to fascism.
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Social−70
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Chaplin's satirical dictator of Tomainia, a comic mirror of Hitler that skewers the vanity and cruelty at the heart of fascist spectacle.
social
Hateful ultranationalism — satirised to expose its emptiness.
economic
A militarised command-and-spectacle economy serving the leader's vanity.
governance
Absolute personal tyranny rendered absurd.
Notable for
- Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator' (1940)
- The globe-balloon dance
- Satire of the strongman
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